This is the enemy that our troops face daily. This is the enemy that the weak minded facilitators of egalitarian liberalism would belittle our soldiers for killing. Another young American life has been snuffed out by radicalism and the adherents and followers of a radical and militant religion. And the band plays on.
An Afghan teenager killed an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan
by stabbing him in the neck while he played with a group of local
children, officials said Monday.
The killing comes as the monthly U.S. death toll
rose sharply in March to 14 with the start of the spring fighting season
when the Taliban and other insurgents take advantage of improved
weather to step up attacks.
Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, was guarding Afghan and
U.S. officials meeting in a province near the border with Pakistan when
the stabbing occurred last Wednesday, two senior U.S. officials said.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is
ongoing.
The attack occurred after the soldiers had secured
the area for the meeting, but one of the U.S. officials said the youth
was not believed to have been a member of the Afghan security forces or
in uniform so it was not being classified as an insider attack.
The official said the attacker was thought to be about 16 years old, but the age couldn't be verified.
The Afghan and American dignitaries were attending
the swearing-in ceremony of Afghan Local Police in Shinwar district in
Nangarhar province, senior district official Zalmai Khan said. Afghan
Local Police, or ALP, recruits are drawn from villages and backed by the
U.S. military.
The soldier was playing with a group of children
outside when the attacker came from behind and stabbed him in the neck
with a large knife, Khan said, adding the young man had escaped to
nearby Pakistan.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the young
man was acting independently when he killed the soldier but had joined
the Islamic militant movement since fleeing the scene.
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